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Zepto

India 10-minute grocery delivery via dense dark-store network
Logistics / Consumer 📍 Mumbai, India Founded 2021
Current Valuation
$7.0B
as of 2025-Q4
UNICORN

IPO Outlookrumored

Is Zepto going public in 2026?
An IPO is rumored for 2026, with nothing filed. Zepto remains private and the date is not the company's.
What is Zepto's valuation in 2026?
Zepto is valued at $7.0B as of 2025-Q4, set by its Series H ($450M, Oct 2025). That is the last confirmed mark, not a live price — private shares do not trade continuously.
Has Zepto filed an S-1?
No public S-1 is on file for Zepto as of 08/23/2026; the IPO is rumored.
Who are Zepto's investors?
Zepto's investors include General Catalyst, Nexus Venture Partners, StepStone Group, Lightspeed, Y Combinator, Avenir Growth Capital and 1 more.
Answers are derived from the roster record shown on this page — filing status, last round and confirmed marks. Where the record is silent, the answer says so rather than guessing.
Zepto is India's leading 10-minute quick-commerce grocery-delivery app, founded in 2021 by Stanford dropouts Aadit Palicha and Kaivalya Vohra. The company has scaled aggressively against Zomato's Blinkit and Swiggy Instamart by building a dense network of urban dark stores. In October 2025, Zepto raised $450M at a $7B valuation - nearly doubling from $3.6B in mid-2024 - and is widely expected to IPO in 2026. Total funding raised across rounds exceeds $2.3B.

Company Profile

CEO
Aadit Palicha
Founded
2021
HQ
Mumbai, India
Employees
~5000
Total Raised
$2.3B
Growth
Scaled rapidly to multi-billion-order run-rate; valuation up from $3.6B to $7B in ~15 months
Last Round
Series H — $450M (Oct 2025) · Lead: Undisclosed (multi-investor round)
IPO Status
rumored

Fundraising Status

Series H · $450M · 10 mo ago
rumoredTotal raised $2.3B

Secondary Market

Implied price / share
$300
Secondary price return by period
Secondary market period returns3-month0.0%6-month-6.2%1-year-50.0%All-time+7.1%
Implied per-share price from private secondary transactions, as of Jun 2026. This is a point estimate, not a quote — the feed carries no bid, ask or spread, and a secondary print is evidence of what someone paid on that date rather than a live market. Compare across every tracked name →

Latest Funding Round

RoundAmountDateLead InvestorPost-Money
Series H$450MOct 2025Undisclosed (multi-investor round)

Talent Signal

Hiring trend
First snapshot
trend accrues with monthly sweeps
Open roles
14
via careers page
Product-build share
0%
engineering, research, product, design
Trajectory
steady
go-to-market push — Only 0% of open roles build product — hiring is concentrated in sales/marketing/ops (12 of 14 open roles are marketing).
Actively hiring with no tracked executive churn.
Open roles by month
Open roles by month14Aug '26
Open roles by function
Open roles by functionMarketing12Support1Legal & Policy1
product-building   go-to-market / G&A
Customer SupportResponsible Disclosure Policy[Ob & Gob](https://www.zepto.com/brand/OB&GOB/0cb1c204-19a0-4802-8325-583717a30a[Frido Pillow](https://www.zepto.com/brand/Frido/ec052076-1991-45a7-86c9-2220434[Yakult](https://www.zepto.com/brand/Yakult/c17eb160-a431-49e9-b7f8-42818835e80e[My Muse](https://www.zepto.com/brand/MyMuse/84dd0561-4a04-497f-bb5d-79a04c8dd7e
Counted from Zepto's live job board as of 2026-08-17; role functions classified from posting titles. Open-role counts are an activity signal, not headcount. Refreshed monthly.

Founders & Key People

Aadit PalichaKaivalya Vohra

Investors

General Catalyst · Nexus Venture Partners · StepStone Group · Lightspeed · Y Combinator · Avenir Growth Capital · Glade Brook Capital

Products

  • Zepto 10-minute grocery delivery app
  • Zepto Cafe (food + coffee delivery in 10 minutes)
  • Zepto Marketplace (longer-tail SKUs)
  • Dark-store dense urban network

Competitors

Blinkit (Zomato/Eternal) · Swiggy Instamart (public) · BB Now (Tata) · Flipkart Minutes
Quick CommerceIndiaGroceryDark StoresPre-IPO
Private-company numbers are not real-time. Reflects publicly disclosed valuations from press releases, news reports, and tender offers as of 2025-Q4. Refreshed quarterly.